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know their fear'. The words 'their' and *they' might
easily be confused.
S.D. F. 'Enter Rofalinde, Siluius, & Phebe/
18-25. to make all this matter even...To make these
doubts all even This kind of clumsy repetition is un-
usual with Shakespeare. The expression 'made even*
recurs in Hymen's song 1. 106 below. Cf. Measure,
3. i. 40-1 'Yet death we fear,/That makes these odds
all even.'
21. Keep your word1, PArA? (Rowe) F.'Keepeyou
your word Phebe' Cf. note 4. 3, 7. The only way of
scanning the F. line is to take Phebe as a monosyllable;
on the other hand, with 'Keep you your word' (1. 19)
and 'You yours' (1. 2°) the compositor would be
tempted to set up 'you your' once again.
25. short line, but of no textual significance.
S.D. F. 'Exit Rof. and Celia/
34. Qbscurt"L..foresi Alluding perhaps to the magic
circle within which a wizard was safe from devils. -
S.D. F. 'Enter Clowne and Audrey.—after 1. 33,
36. ark. So F.
42-3. put me to my purgation The quibble recurs
in Ham. 'put him to his purgation' (3. 2. 318).
47. ttfen up v. G. 'take up/ . .
,53. I desire you of the like i.e. may you remain m
that frame of mind.
co. honesty i.e. chastity".
62. saaft and'sententious prompt and pithy.
63-4. According.^"**?. Cf. M. of r.*. a. 58
'according to fates and destinies, and SQch odd sayings,
the sisters three, and sueh branches of learning. That
two clowns so different as Lancelot and Touchstone
should employ the same turn of phrase suggests that it
may have been some catch expression of the day. 'The
fool's bolt' refers of course to the proverb'||ol s bolt
is soon shoV but no one has discovered t^fbficance
of 'dulcet diseases/